Rockies reinstate Daley from DL
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09/06/2010 - Denver, CO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Colorado Rockies reinstated pitcher Matt Daley from the 60-day disabled list on Monday.
Daley had been on the DL since June 16, retroactive to June 11, with right shoulder inflammation. He was transferred to the 60-day DL on August 3.
Daley has appeared in 26 games for the Rockies this season, going 0-1 with a 3.74 earned run average.
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Appalachian State quarterback DeAndre Presley, Gardner-Webb linebacker Jeffery Williams, Southern special teams performer Corey Cushingberry and Northern Arizona running back Zach Bauman have been named The S
<< Dolphins sign veteran LB Carpenter
Miami, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Miami Dolphins have signed linebacker
Bobby Carpenter to an undisclosed contract.
The former number one draft choice had spent the 2010 training camp with the
St. Louis Rams after being acquired
<< Saints ink LB Clark
New Orleans, LA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The New Orleans Saints have reportedly
signed linebacker Danny Clark on Monday.
According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Clark was signed to add depth to
a linebacker corps that has lost Jonatha
<< Washington fails to clinch playoff spot
Bridgeview, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Washington Freedom failed to clinch the
final playoff spot in Women's Professional Soccer on Sunday as they suffered a
2-1 defeat to the Chicago Red Stars.
The Freedom entered Sunday's game needing a
<< Kuznetsova exits the Open
Flushing Meadows, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former champion Svetlana Kuznetsova
was a fourth-round upset victim Monday at the U.S. Open.
Talented Slovak Dominika Cibulkova cut down the 11th-seeded Kuznetsova 7-5,
7-6 (7-4) at the USTA Billie
Rotterdam, Netherlands (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Netherlands striker Dirk Kuyt is expected to miss the next few weeks after he suffered a shoulder injury in training, Dutch manager Bert van Marwijk confirmed on Monday. Kuyt sustained the
Miyazato remains No. 1 in world rankings >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Ai Miyazato remained No. 1 in the world
rankings for women's golf for the third week in a row.
Miyazato grabbed the No. 1 ranking from Cristie Kerr following a win on August
22, her third victory on th
Anelka confirms international retirement >>
Paris, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - France striker Nicolas Anelka confirmed his
retirement from international soccer on Monday having been given an 18-match
suspension by the French Football Federation for his conduct at this past
summer'
2010 World Basketball Championship update - September 6th >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) -
USA 121, Angola 66
Russia 31, New Zealand 27 - Halftime
Marlins P Mendez leaves debut with injury >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Florida Marlins pitcher Adalberto Mendez
left Monday's game against the Philadelphia Phillies with a right quad
strain.
Mendez, who pitched six shutout innings, singled in the seventh, but came
MySportsbook.com favors Bears, Bengals, Chargers and Colts to remain perfect
LAS VEGAS , Sept. 28 - Two big match-ups of undefeated teams have fans salivating at the Week Four schedule in the NFL. The Chicago Bears stifling defense looks to provide a less than hospitable welcome to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday night in a battle of two 3-0 teams in the NFC conference. In the AFC, the San Diego Chargers (2-0) head to Maryland to face the surprising Baltimore Ravens (3-0) as both try to keep pace atop the conference standings. Betting Lines makers at MySportsbook.com, online sportsbook and casino, have set the Bears as 3.5 point favorites while the Chargers are a 2.5 point bet.
Of the three remaining undefeated teams, only one, New Orleans, enters this week's game as an underdog. Despite an emotional and resounding win over Atlanta on Monday night, the Saints are a 7.5 point underdog against the struggling Carolina Panthers. Indianapolis looks to stay perfect when they face the New York Jets as a 9 point road favorite while the Cincinnati Bengals are a 6 point favorite at home to the New England Patriots.
Six teams enter the week still looking for their first win, with a seventh, Tampa Bay, on a bye week. The prospect of dropping another game would not bode well for a potential playoff run. Since 1990, just three teams -- the 1992 Chargers, 1995 Detroit Lions and 1998 Buffalo Bills -- have overcome losing their first three games of the season to earn a postseason berth. And only the Chargers managed to accomplish the feat after starting 0-4.
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FOOTBALL TRASH TALK
NFL Football Trash TalkTrash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).
Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.
Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).
Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.
Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say, will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.
The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.
What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.
Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.
But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You wont be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, Im sure, to reply.
In addition to the trash talking, the Sports Alarm has a huge gallery of high resolution pictures of beautiful women and models in bikinis. The most popular models are: Lindsay Lohan, Carrie Underwood, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Paris Hilton.